Talbot: Notebook ('Memorandum of Expenses incurred for account of H F Talbot Esq. of 2 Mansfield Street Portland Place')
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The account book lists expenses from 29 March - 27 May 1847, mainly incurred in London and Reading. On the front cover is written '1847'. See also Add MS 88942/1/288 and Add MS 88942/1/291.
Talbot: Notebook ('Memorandum of Expenses incurred for account of H F Talbot Esq. of 2 Mansfield Street Portland Place')
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Slim account book listing expenditure from March-15 May 1847, mainly incurred in London and Reading. On the front cover, '1847' is written. With an additional loose sheet recording expenses regarding Tobias S. Telfer, and a loose sheet of blotting paper. See also Add MS 88942/1/288 and Add MS 889...
Talbot: Notebook ('Copy Settlement of Real Estates on the Marriage of Captain Thomas Gaisford with Miss H. H. Fielding [sic]')
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A fair hand copy, dated 24 January 1850, entitled 'Copy Settlement by the very Rev. Dr. Gaisford Dean of Christchurch Oxford of Real Estates in the County of Wiltshire on the Marriage of his Son Captain Thomas Gaisford with Miss H H Fielding [sic]'. William Henry Fox Talbot is one of the witness...
A notebook used only on the first and last pages. On the first page, under the date 20 February 1851, the heading 'Red Box belonging to Electrical Machine contains' followed by a list of various publications including papers and books by Talbot. Some items are related to photography. On the fi...
The notebook contains only brief notes (relating to licensing) on its first two pages, dated 1853 and 1854. With the notebook are three loose sheets, one of which contains notes on letters from Joseph Whitlock (who opened the first Daguerreotype studio in Birmingham) also regarding calotype lic...
Records (in French) of travel and related expenditure, 18 July to 9 August 1860. The record appears to have been kept by M. I. Bayer, of Bruxelles, who is mentioned on the first and final pages of the notebook.
Various very brief notes: financial issues with John Harry Bolton (solicitor) about 122 Regent Street (Talbotype establishment); 'Accounts to be settled'; 'Miscellanea'; 'Money matters Coutts'; 'Wilkins' (plants for the gardener); 'at Paris' (with a note citing Figuier's method of engraving, and ...